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Ten guiding principles for a better customer experience

PK

Many businesses are working to foster a better experience for their customers. With customer experience being a new area of focus for many, we have found that businesses are ramping into the field very quickly and are sometimes missing some key base principles in the process. This is a set of ten guiding principles that act as a foundation in our CX practice.

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5 Top Customer Service Articles of the Week 5-10-2021

ShepHyken

Each week I read a number of customer service and customer experience articles from various resources. Here are my top five picks from last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you think too. 8 Ways to Win Customer Loyalty With Streamlined Customer Support by Samuel O’Brien. (CustomerThink) How do you, as a business owner, introduce processes and initiatives to streamline your customer support in order to win over your customers?

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Exceptional? Sales? ?People? ?Deserve? ?to? ?Sell? ?Outstanding? ?Products

TechSee

Here at TechSee, we are incredibly proud of what we’ve created and what it has to offer. In the span of only six years, we’ve established ourselves as the market leader in visual assistance, selling to more than 100 Tier-1 leading enterprises worldwide. Our patented Computer Vision technology uses AI and AR to install and fix technical devices like routers and appliances in the most straightforward and cost-effective way.

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Designing a fantastic customer journey from end-to-end

BirdEye

Delivering world-class experiences on a consistent basis isn’t easy — especially when you’re managing multiple locations. However, businesses that are able to go above and beyond customer expectations see higher loyalty , higher overall star rating, and higher revenue. To find out how multi-location businesses can delight customers consistently, we decided to sit down with Amberlee Maya , Director of Marketing at Rent King.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Kustomer Named a Winner in the 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Awards

Kustomer

Kustomer is honored to have been named a winner in the 2021 Excellence in Customer Service Awards presented by Business Intelligence Group. This annual business awards program recognizes those who are helping companies better communicate with their customers to provide a differentiated level of customer service. “The past year fundamentally changed the way companies do business and made customer service agents truly the front line for many organizations.

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3 Must-know Principles about Timing of Feedback Surveys

Feedbackly

Feedback surveys are important resources that help businesses assess the quality and success of their Customer Experience (CX) program. But, you cannot use all.

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What To Consider Before Hiring Virtual Assistant Philippines

Magellan Solutions

Hire a virtual assistant in the Philippines. As long as you are in the business, you will definitely need a virtual assistant. Hiring VA’s are being considered especially with the technology developments. Listed below are the general tasks they take up for you: Personal Tasks. You can hire a VA to help out with personal tasks such as: Organizing your personal to-do list and calendar.

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Captive Center vs. Outsourcing: How to Pick the Right One for your Customer Service Needs

Think Customers

There’s no overstating the importance of having high-quality contact centers. These centers are often where customers interact with a brand more directly, and their experiences can bring swift consequences: positive experiences can lead to sales and repeat business, while negative ones can turn customers off a brand for good. Research shows 70% of shopping experiences revolve around how a person feels they are treated.

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Why SMEs Should Follow Companies that Outsource to Philippines

Magellan Solutions

What Benefits Do Companies that Outsource to Philippines Enjoy? . History tells that outsourcing or offshoring favored established companies. Taking into account the prime example of General Motors and Ford Company. Who are both key players in the automotive industry when they incorporate outsourcing into their business strategy. . Even today, large companies and industry players fill up the list of top companies that outsource to Philippines.

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The Verint Experience Index: Retail

Reports of the death of in-store shopping have been greatly exaggerated. This year’s retail survey found that more than 60 percent of consumers start and end their journey by visiting a store. Retail customers value price above everything, but the importance of other factors varies for different brands. In-store shopping is valued highly by grocery and home improvement customers Technology retail customers place less importance on in-store experiences – for them it only ranks sixth Digital exper

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CX leaders share tried & tested ways to secure customer experience investment

MyCustomer

Engagement Tried and tested ways to justify CX investment.

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Prioritise Your Customers’ Mental Wellbeing To Spur Pandemic Recovery

Forrester's Customer Insights

It’s impossible not to see how consumers have felt the pressure of the 2020 pandemic. People have faced job losses, extended furlough, or enforced remote work while also managing home schooling, and the social (and psychological) impact of lockdowns. Then, there were those on the front-lines; key workers struggling to do their jobs while COVID-19 […].

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Podcast: The Overnight Community Success Plan

inSided

In Episode 11 of The inSide Scoop on Customer Success , we tackle a very important topic: the Community Success Plan. Listen in as our VP of Customer Success and podcast hostess with the mostess, Anika Zubair, talks to Jeff Breunsbach, Director of Customer Experience at Higher Logic and founder of Gain Grow Retain. Communities take a lot of work and they're not an overnight success, but what does it take to build a successful community?

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Build A Culture Of Emotionally-Intelligent Employees To Boost Mental Health

Forrester's Customer Insights

Many companies get emotion wrong… Rather than designing experiences built on a broad spectrum of emotions, they equate emotion with delight. But real joy and real happiness can only exist in relation to all the emotions, they are a “boxed set.” We cannot just pick and choose our emotions. Anger isn’t joy, just as joy […].

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Revolutionizing Contact Centers: Next-Gen Tech for Enhanced CX

Speaker: Liran Meir Frenkel, Performance Management and RPA Sr Product Marketing Manager at NICE; Harpreet Makan, Practice Director at Everest Group; & Santhosh Kumar, Practice Director at Everest Group

As contact centers navigate the challenges of delivering excellence within budget constraints and adapting to evolving employee expectations, optimizing agent tasks becomes crucial. Discover a holistic approach across three pillars - people, process, and technology - that is essential to excel in this dynamic landscape, and explore how next-gen technologies such as generative AI, performance analytics, and process intelligence play a pivotal role in transforming contact centers into advanced CX

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Coming to MyCustomer in June: The CX Leader Sessions

MyCustomer

Engagement Coming to MyC in June: The CX Leader Sessions.

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4 Reasons Your Company Needs an Intranet

CSM Magazine

Some might think corporate intranet is dead, but this is further from the truth. More business organizations are still using this technology to bring people together and promote an effective, efficient, and collaborative working environment. For newer or younger IT professionals, however, the intranet may appear to be a fragment from a bygone era characterized by mainframe computers and modem-based communication apparatus.

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Warning: Employee Engagement Is Higher Than You Think – Carefully Monitor The Burnout Factor

Forrester's Customer Insights

This week is European Mental Health Week. There are many different facets to mental health but no doubt our relationship to work is a key component of it, simply because we spend so much time working and because work (or the absence of it) also shapes our very own identities. The pandemic has drastically changed […].

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How Email Marketers Can Use Data to Combat Inbox Overload

Oracle

The average professional sends and receives 127 business emails per day. That’s a large chunk of time spent on one communication channel. But often, email marketers , specifically in retail, send large amounts of email because they may feel pressured by those who believe it drives revenue. More sends beget more money, theoretically. However, email marketers also recognize that email file health is critical.

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The Open CCaaS Advantage Report

Over the next 12 months, what do you think will have the biggest impact on your CX automation efforts? When asked the same question, only 10% of CX leaders surveyed by Verint chose telephony. It’s no longer the engagement channel leading CCaaS conversations. The customer engagement challenges facing organizations have changed – so a new approach is needed.

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Transactional NPS (tNPS)

GetFeedback

Learn why transactional NPS surveys are valuable for your business and when it’s appropriate to use them.

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WATCH NOW: MyCustomer introduces The CX Leader Sessions

MyCustomer

Engagement WATCH NOW: Introducing The CX Leader Sessions.

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The Future of College Sports: New Study Reveals How Athletic Directors and Administrators Can Enhance the College Football Experience

Qualtrics

The future of sports is facing an experience transformation. The events of 2020 forced leagues to think differently and create new ways to engage with fans and staff. Externally, the fan experience was forced out of stadiums, and into living rooms via computer, television, and mobile screens. Internally, leagues continue to struggle as they figure out how to keep fans and athletes healthy and safe while continuing operations.

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Coming to MyC in June: The CX Leader Sessions

MyCustomer

Engagement Coming to MyC in June: The CX Leader Sessions.

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Your Expert Guide to CX Orchestration & Enhancing Customer Journeys

Speaker: Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor at Medallia

Join Keith Kmett, Principal CX Advisor, in this new webinar that will focus on: Understanding CX Orchestration Fundamentals: Gain a solid understanding of what CX orchestration is, its significance in the customer experience landscape, and how it plays a crucial role in shaping customer journeys. This includes the key concepts, strategies, and best practices involved in CX orchestration. 🔑 Connection to Customer Journey Maps: How to effectively integrate customer journey mapping into the

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Top 10 Customer Experience Mistakes

SmartKarrot

A good customer experience will have a positive impact on revenue. Some businesses only focus on sales and marketing leading to less focus on customer engagement. Investing in customer experience will boost customer success and customer retention rates. Having a good customer experience will improve customer loyalty and make a mark in the competitive landscape.

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Ransomware: Survive By Outrunning The Guy Next To You

Forrester's Customer Insights

There are two people in a wood, and they run into a bear. The first person gets down on his knees to pray; the second person starts lacing up his boots. The first person asks the second person, “My dear friend, what are you doing? You can’t outrun a bear.” To which the second person […].

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CRM Hack: The “Power Measures” You Must Know

Optimove

We all want to receive a true reflection of our customers’ status and behavior. “Power Measures,” or personalized attributes, help businesses understand your target audience so that you can create more enticing campaigns. Using power measures in CRM enables marketers to generate hyper-personalized targeting and relevant communications with customers – at a sophisticated level.

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Employee Wellbeing Is A Shared Responsibility

Forrester's Customer Insights

I spent the early days of my career in the early 90’s studying manufacturing engineering at University then working in a ship repair yard. I was taught to weld by a gruff Geordie who handed me a visor, a live arc-welder and told me “don’t look into the light. You’ll go blind”. I didn’t. That […].

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr